Early on everyone started calling him "Perkie" because he was so energetic, outgoing and likeable. He is the only son of Louise Edna Perkins and Rich Perkins. Louise is Jimmy’s Father’s baby sister.
Perkie got his great talent for music from her. Lew got hers from her mother (Jimmy’s Grandmother) who, when she was very young played the piano at the silent movies.
One of Jimmy’s earliest memories of his aunt Lew is her closing the hood to the family car and saying to husband Rich, “O K you can start it now.” She was a liberated woman decades before the term existed and could repair an auto better than most male mechanics.
Can’t Stop It, the first story in the Jimmy Rogers Chronicles is based on actual events. David “Perkie” Perkins and Cathy Carlson have loved each other since grade school, long before they had any sense of the meaning of love. “Home In Your Eyes” is their song. Perkie sings it to her at the High School dance.
David and Cathy both die under suspicious circumstances. Were their tragic deaths an accident or has someone killed them?
The deaths of David and Cathy, the first of the reversals that send Jimmy Rogers in a down would spiral where Jediah Hudson finds him stepping off the top railing of the Langford Bridge.
Will Jediah get to him in time to save him?
It was Perkie who talked his friends into creating The Rhythm Kings. Paul “Hand Jive” Donaldson plays drums, Degamo “Frog Man” Williams plays bass, Bob “Speed” Bryant Jr., plays guitar, Henry “Bud” Flowers, plays keyboards, Leonard “Lenny” Goldstein, plays sax, and in act one of “Can’t Stop It”, new kid in town Carlos Rodreguez joins on acoustic guitar and bongos.
This seven-piece band practiced and often performed at Professor Remembers Roadhouse & Bakery Café, which is owned by Aaron Rizzer, a retired McRecords A & R Director who plays an important role in the Jimmy Rogers Chronicles.
Even though Perkie often tried to persuade his cousin Jimmy to pick up the guitar and join The Rhythm Kings, Jimmy never took an interest until he saw Elvis on TV. Jimmy found the guitar his brother Hal left behind when Hal joined the Marines.
Jimmy’s super human hearing enabled him to learn the guitar quickly. He was inspired to write Can’t Stop It, his first song and the title of the first episode while listening to radio with Hal’s guitar.
Perkie was delighted to have Jimmy join The Rhythm Kings at the High School dance. After the dance the band and girlfriends all go to Professor Remember’s Roadhouse & Bakery Cafe.
That is where Jimmy meets Marie Scappelli and falls in love so fast, he wrote “Lickity Split” and talked the band into taking the stage and performing it ad hoc. Jimmy is hoping it will get Marie’s attention. Will it?
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